2987 Perry Avenue

Bedford Park | built 1912

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1912
Salvation Army officer Thomas Stanyon is the first owner of No. 2987
The original owner of No. 2987 was Thomas Stanyon, an officer of the Salvation Army. Stanyon, his wife Carrie and three of the couple's five children were English-born, and the family apparently came to the United States by way of Canada. Several of the Stanyon children later also worked for the Salvation Army, setting the family apart from the many German-born households on the row.
“Thomas Stanyon, the original owner of no. 2987, his wife Carrie, and three of their five children, were born in England…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
1936
A new apartment house going up beside the row leaves the owner of No. 2987 fearing for his home
Bedford Park filled with large apartment houses after the Jerome Avenue subway opened in 1918, and in 1935-36 a seven-story elevator building went up at 314 East 201st Street, about ten feet northeast of the row. A 1936 note to the Department of Buildings, filed by Phillip Basson, records the owner of No. 2987 fearing that the work was putting his house in a "dangerous condition."
“Construction of the apartment house at 314 East 201st Street shook the owner of no. 2987 into fearing that his home was being put into a dangerous condition…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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